Download or read book The Call of the Running Tide written by Walt Gray and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leesa Mercer, a young female engineer, reaches for success in the man’s world of the offshore oil industry of the mid 1980’s. The backdrop for her struggle includes blowouts, chauvinists, romance, trapped divers and violent confrontations between oil companies and environmentalists. The story’s climax occurs when a major offshore construction project, managed by Leesa, meets both human and physical disaster. Leesa’s challenge is to see if she can mature sufficiently to save a situation, a construction crew and a community who depend on her leadership.